Downtown still shines

All decked out. My daily pursuits led me to a December visit to downtown Syracuse. Of course I needed to walk past Clinton Square for my annual photo clicks of the decorated tree and adjacent areas. The grass was green and nobody was skating as a light rain fell. The artificial tree still looked sharp,…

Lazy day

Morning mood. Our cherished rescue mutt owns the living room as daylight starts to emerge on a mid-December morning. She chooses to stretch out and take things easy.

Cool December sunrise

Between snow events. Our backyard appreciates that time on a mid-December morn where nature can breathe in the emerging sunlight. I enjoyed catching it from our back door.

My wife know how to pick my birthday gift

Ready to celebrate in style. My dear wife Karen and I finished purchasing a couple bottles of Cab Sav for me plus a bottle for her to bring to Georgia’s for a cookie exchange afternoon when the clerk pointed to a carton at the end of the counter and exclaimed, <em>That’s your’s, too.</em> Wrong, said…

Hot stove season …

Opening day dreams. Officials from the major-league squads are meeting with agents from free agents and conferring with colleagues about potential trades. Meanwhile, this fan was looking out over the Syracuse Mets field and thinking about Opening Day, come April 1, 2025, and who will be a Met here and there. After this event, I…

Back in the day …

Maybe I was there. When the new stadium for Syracuse’s Triple A baseball team first opened, it had artificial turf. The team was called the Syracuse Chiefs. Its parent club was the Toronto Blue Jays. I think I took time off from my job at the big daily to go to the game.

Lots of interest

Quick, get to the stuff. I told Elisabeth and George I thought this was the biggest group of fans I’d ever seen for the Syracuse Mets annual garage sale. Wow, they walked fast to get to the merchandise set up in the Metropolitan Room.

OK, think about baseball

Lining up to look at the goods. Every year in the first part of December, the Syracuse Mets open NBT Bank Stadium to fans and put out what they hope fans will want to take home to gift-give or keep for themselves. I again went for a taste of baseball with terrific daughter Elisabeth and…

First for the car, too

Ready for the winter. This is our first season with the 2024 HR-V as the white stuff hits our part of the world. The 2019 model handled it well, so expect good things from this Honda, too. Knock on wood.

Hang in there

Let it linger. The early December snow did not want to leave the backyard lilac bush. This season, the leaves were down and gone before the white stuff arrived.